Memory

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cause severe psychological and emotional damage.
Adults who were sexually abused in childhood are at a higher risk for developing
a variety of psychiatric disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders,
and mood disorders. To understand the essential issues about traumatic memory,
the human mind’s response to a traumatic event must first be understood. The
memory is made up of many different sections with each having different
consequences on one another.
Can people remember what they were wearing three days ago? Most likely no,
because the memory only holds on to what is actively remembered. What a person
was wearing is not important so it is thrown out and forgotten. This type of
unimportant information passes through the short-term memory. "Short-term
memory is a system for storing information over brief intervals of time.”
(Squire, 1987) It’s main characteristic is the holding and understanding of
limited amounts of information. The system can grasp brief ...

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fails. The part at which a person is right half the time is
defined as their digit span. A way to improve a digit span is through rhythm
which helps to reduce the tendency to recall the numbers in the wrong order.
Also, to make sure a telephone number is copied correctly, numbers can be
grouped in twos and threes instead of given all at once. (Baddeley, 1993)
Another part of short-term memory is called chunking, used for the
immediate recall of letters rather than numbers. When told to remember and
repeat the letters q s v l e r c i i u k, only a person with an excellent
immediate memory would be able to do so. But, if the same letters were given
this way, q u i c k s i l v e r, ...

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